Winter Solstice Lantern Festival

[myriam]

Winter Solstice Lantern Festival Co-production with Secret Lantern Society

Winter Solstice is almost upon us. Once again Secret Lantern Society is teaming up with In the House to bring you a lantern making workshop and some live shows right in the warmth and intimacy of some homes near Commercial Dr. What better way to welcome in the longer days than with some lantern making, some music and some storytelling. End the shows with a lantern procession led by some fabulous music to Britannia Community Centre.

Date: Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
Time: Shows and workshop at 6:00 pm sharp
Procession to the Britannia Community Centre at 7:00 pm

Where:
2256 Parker St: Lantern making workshop + music with Savoir Faire
2162 Parker St: Blues music with The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer
839 Lakewood Dr: Storytelling with Naomi Steinberg + Maggie Winston.

* At 7 pm you can either meet at the corner of Lakewood and Parker or, if you live on Parker St, you can also wait on your doorstep for the lantern procession, led by Orkestar Slivovica, to come past your house. Official starting point of procession is at 2256 Parker St. Join in the procession down to Britannia Community Centre to enjoy the rest of the evening's festivities.

Tickets: The shows are by donation
The lantern workshop is 5$ - materials are provided

Last year's shows and workshop were completely sold out, so to guarantee yourself a seat, email info@inthehousefestival.com to pre-register for the show or workshop you want. Seating is first come first serve.

For more info on the Secret Lantern Society and all their amazing Solstice events, please go to http://www.secretlantern.org

Performers:

The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer: HAM is a finger-pickin', foot-stompin', harp-blowin' roots blues duo out of Vancouver. Drawing influences from the old masters and innovators like John Hurt, Muddy Waters, and Robert Johnson, their music tells rich tales of midnight trains, black cat bones, highwaymen and a time when song was a simple expression of the soul.

Naomi Steinberg: Naomi has told stories in places as varied as the 11th Annual International Storytelling Festival in Vancouver, Canada to the "Science Meets Dharma" project in Southern India. She has developed workshops for schools in Morocco, Switzerland and Vancouver as well as for the Cortona Conference in Tuscany, Italy.

Maggie Winston: Maggie's puppet shows have been featured in Earth(ling): A Festival for Youth, Activism, and Art, Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver Fringe Festival, Western Front, In the House Festival, and Walking Fish Festival. She has been involved with "We're All in This Together": The Shadows Project, Vancouver Moving Theatre and "Condemned" a DTES Community Opera. Maggie is a theatre instructor for children ages 2-19 at Arts Umbrella and a puppeteer for Kids on the Block, and educational puppet company. She is the founder of Lost and Found Puppet Co.

Orkestar Slivovica: Let the mysterious Eastern sounds of the Orkestar Slivovica Balkan Brass band lead you on the journey to the Winter Solstice fire at Britannia, and let the music take you to distant lands and ages past where so many others have celebrated this changing of the seasons, this darkest longest night, for all time eternal.

Savoir Faire: Savoir Faire... Music from the Old Country. French waltzes, English dance tunes, and a miscellany of other visitations to different times and places. Led by a little button accordion, with any possibility of accompaniment from the band that is never the same twice!